Customer Reviews

Biggest Book of Bread Machine Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking)

5 star:		(26)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

New to bread machine baking, I wanted a BIG book of tested recipes. This is it. There are lots of recipes for the bread machine, both for total machine baking and oven baking. The one reason I cannot give it 5 stars is the way the recipe pages are set up.

The type is in a nice blue and hard to read orange. The type used to list the ingredients is small and every other line is in orange. I find it difficult to read as the orange seems to fade out alongside the deep blue. Maybe I need to update my glasses.

One other item I would like to have seen is an ingredient substitution guide somewhere in the Tips Section.

There are some really good features, however. The book opens out flat for easy reference to the recipe while preparing. The index cross references recipes by ingredients which I found very useful. There are some ideas for how to use the bread in sandwiches and with soups; they look yummy and worth trying.

Overall, I like the book. All the recipes I tried have come out great. I just wish the book was easier to read, but that won't keep me from using it.

This is probably the biggest book on bread machine that you can find in the cooking category. I only wish that there are pictures. I'm a sucker of cookbook with pictures- They encourage me to bake more just by looking at the pictures. If you decide to buy this book, do not buy the previously published bread machine cookbook by Better homes and garden. This book included probably 95% of the recipes included in the previous book

This is an excellent collection for a beginning bread maker like myself. I like the aroma coming from a freshly baking loaf in the morning, and the many recipes in this book amply provide it. I think the amount of yeast recommended is perhaps a bit low, but the rest of the recipes are fine. I am currently baking my way through them. The book makes an excellent gift.

I don't care for the texture of bread baked in bread machines, therefore I use all recipes on dough cycle only. Have tried quite a few and have not had a bad one yet, with the exception of the breadsticks; but I'll give them another try too.
Baked the buttermilk bread yesterday, excellent !

Here's the problem with this book - too little yeast. I own a Zojirushi bread maker that's excellent. The accompanying recipes work out fine. However, for every 3-4 cups of flour, Zojirushi recommends 2 tsp of yeast. For the equivalent amount in this book, the authors recommended about 1. Every loaf turned out bad until I upped the yeast. I can't figure out what the authors were thinking.

This book is HUGE and lives up to it's title! I've probably tried at least 20 recipes for loaves and 3 or 4 recipes for rolls and breadsticks. So far I haven't had a bad loaf! The recipes are easy, fun, interesting, and there are so many to pick from!

Excellent book - wonderful recipes - anyway can make wonderful bread with a bread machine using these recipes. Highly recommend - very easy understand.

We love trying different kinds of bread and the recipes in this book are excellent! (Like Dill Onion Sourdough and Roasted Garlic Wheat to name two). It's fun to have a fresh loaf of unique bread with very little effort - just put the ingredients in the bread machine and press start.

I have found many recipes in this book that I am so impressed with. I wouldn't know what to do without it. I am so very glad that I bought it. I looked at many books, but they had recipes that I would never use. I especially love a rye bread recipe. I use it about 3-4 times a week. My family loves it. I have other cookbooks for my bread machine, but this one is the best. If you have a bread machine, get this book.

This book is specifically for those with bread machines. It is nicely organized, easy to use, and has a good index. It is spiral bound which I find very helpful. As you would expect it has hundreds of bread recipes, but it also has other good information about flours, bread chemistry, etc. which help you to "personalize" your recipes. At this point, I've made a few of the recipes and so far so GOOD.